Issues with GPRS, wireless, OTT data exchange ...

[spaceape]

Ok, I'm going to be calling Vodafone tomorrow to go over the following, but thought I'd post on here in case someone either i) has any tips, or ii) is struggling with the same issues and can learn something that might help them. All help welcomed.

1) SPB GPRS Manager set up as logically as possible but it's still showing me sending/receiving way more traffic than I can believe, e.g. it does a send/receive to a couple of gmail accounts that have no updates to make, but it still fires off roughly 200k every session (virtually all of which is "received") even when no new emails are coming in. Is this because the phone has to send/receive data simply so it can compare the syncing of folders/emails? Am going to definitely ask Vodafone how much data is being exchanged because I'm going to use up my 120Mb monthly allowance in days if this keeps happening.

2) Wireless keeps picking up neighbours' new wireless router - pops up with notification every 15 mins or so, even after selecting "dismiss" and "do not show again". This has become really annoying, especially as all it seems to do with mine is see the router as available but fail to connect to it. Was working fine until yesterday.

3) Every couple of days or so the clock seems to randomly move forward an hour by self-selecting GMT+1 ... what's that all about?

4) Have ordered a Sandisk 6Gb SDHC card and am looking to install as many apps and folders on it as possible. Any pointers as to which apps should be kept on the phone and not the card?

Thanks in advance

SA

[neilm]

The neighour's router is a problem I fear you are stuck with It even happens to PC's so you're not alone.

GPRS Monitor: In the profile settings, have you set the 'Packet Size' to 'Do not round' (I don't use this at present so am woking from memory, but I think the setting is in theTariff tab and is set to 100KB by default); UK carrier charge by the KB, but a lot of carriers used to charge by increments of 10k or 100K; obviously if set too high, every data exchange wouldbe counted by the minimum packet size, so if set to 100k, every exchange below 100K would count as 100k, then 101k would count as 200K etc.

Clock: Try going into Settings/Phone and setting the Timezone tab to NOT autoupdate.

[boz]

In answer to running programs from your storage card as a general rule of thumb you should be ok for most applications but today plugins are a no-no.

[spaceape]

Thanks

I knew there was one particular app but had forgotten which one.